Things Are Good

I have a post I want to make about AI, because of course everyone is talking about AI.

But, today I finally managed to get the theme for this blog to work and to look halfway decent, and I just wanted to drop by and say that… things are good. I’m surprised at how good they are. Despite the hurdles, despite the hardships…life is good.

Things have been pretty awful in my country for the past few years (no, I don’t live in America) and something we routinely say when we see that the new government destroys yet another important institution, or causes the death and hurt of more people (NOT a metaphore. They literally do.) goes something like “We were happy and we didn’t know it.”

This roughly means that we had things pretty good and now that we are losing all those things and suffering, we realize how much we took for granted all those little things that improved life for everyone.

I’m reminded of a quote from Marcus Aurelius:

“Don’t set your mind on things you don’t possess…but count the blessings you actually possess and think how much you would desire them if they weren’t already yours.”

Marcus Aurelius

So, I don’t want to say that things are bad. Because I’m happy, and I want to know it and acknowledge it and be grateful about it.

Things are good.